{"id":203,"date":"2007-12-14T16:41:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/12\/14\/real-world-snow-vs-virtual-boston\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T20:42:57","slug":"real-world-snow-vs-virtual-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/12\/14\/real-world-snow-vs-virtual-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-world snow vs. Virtual Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/files\/2007\/12\/boston-island-deed.png\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/files\/2007\/12\/boston-island-deed.thumbnail.png' alt='Deed to Boston Island' align='right' \/><\/a>Despite the first epic snowstorm of the season, we had a great turnout at Emerson College and on Boston Island yesterday for the Hub2 pilot wrapup and Phase II launch. We successfully handed over the &#8220;Deed&#8221; to Boston Island over to the City of Boston in real life and the key to Boston Island in Second Life. (Due to a minor glitch we actually impaled &#8220;HisHonorMenino&#8221; with the key, but all was fixed soon enough).<\/p>\n<p>Each group also presented their projects with much gusto, and I&#8217;ll post links to the online videos whenever they&#8217;re up. There&#8217;s also a video recording of the event &#8212; a capture of the live stream &#8212; which I&#8217;ll link to as well.<\/p>\n<p>While we didn&#8217;t get as much media coverage as we&#8217;d hoped &#8212; it&#8217;s hard to compete with the spectacle of 12 inches of snow in as many hours &#8212; here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.berkeleybeacon.com\/media\/storage\/paper169\/news\/2007\/12\/13\/News\/Emerson.Island.Group.Creates.Virtual.Boston-3143612.shtml\">the Berkeley Beacon&#8217;s take on Hub2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the first epic snowstorm of the season, we had a great turnout at Emerson College and on Boston Island yesterday for the Hub2 pilot wrapup and Phase II launch. We successfully handed over the &#8220;Deed&#8221; to Boston Island over to the City of Boston in real life and the key to Boston Island in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-hub2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}